Clamber vs Slither - What's the difference?
clamber | slither |
To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
* Tennyson
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
*:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
As verbs the difference between clamber and slither
is that clamber is to climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion while slither is to move about smoothly and from side to side.As a noun clamber
is the act of clambering; a difficult or haphazard climb.clamber
English
Verb
(en verb)- The children clambered over the jungle gym with reckless abandon.
- The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
- Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.
- He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls.
slither
English
Verb
(en verb)- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.
